New champ achieves 'every golfer's dream' - twice

A golfer crowned champion of his nine won nan title successful style by achieving not one, but 2 holes successful 1 successful his first round.

Gavin Bourne was competing successful his Club Championship Match Play Final astatine Droitwich Golf Club, Worcestershire, connected Sunday erstwhile he managed nan astonishing feat.

He struck fortunate connected nan 3rd and 15th holes - pinch nan likelihood of 2 aces successful a information estimated to beryllium 67 cardinal to one, according to England Golf.

"Every golfer's dream is to person a spread successful 1 and past to person 2 successful 1 information is conscionable perfectly incredible," he said.

The 47-year-old who has a 0.4 handicap, was playing successful nan first information of a 36-hole last erstwhile he first sewage an ace.

"I deed it. It was bang connected statement and arsenic soon arsenic it landed, Tom, my playing partner said, 'that's successful that is'," Mr Bourne explained.

"Walking up to nan green, Tom arsenic good had deed it to astir 4 aliases 5 foot, and location was only 1 shot connected nan greenish and a transportation people astir 3 ft successful beforehand of nan hole.

"It was huffy arsenic evidently it's each golfer's dream to person a spread successful one, truthful I was successful daze to beryllium honest."

But past 12 holes later he repeated nan aforesaid feat.

"Our nine captain, who was refereeing nan match.. had really seen nan shot spell in...and adjacent play, he kept his calm till Tom deed his tee changeable past each of a abrupt he's conscionable appeared pinch his arms successful nan air.

"I'm reasoning he's conscionable trying to find wherever my shot went truthful I conscionable pointed guardant and said, 'It's up location somewhere', and he's put his arms successful nan aerial again and took a image of nan hole.

"I was like, 'No way. You're having a maine connected here'."

Mr Bourne said he felt a numb and successful daze erstwhile he realised what he had achieved.

"You can't really put it into words to beryllium honest," he said.

The heating engineer, who has played play for much than 30 years, said he only had 1 hole-in-one erstwhile he was a inferior – though he had made 2 aces during evening rounds connected his own, nan past being much than a decade ago.

But he sewage a vessel of whiskey and immoderate drinks successful afterwards, successful keeping pinch tradition, he added.

His skills person now seen him suffice to play astatine Welwyn Garden City successful Hertfordshire, astatine Sir Nick Faldo's people successful a Champion of Champions for nan Faldo Commemoration Jug, he said.

"I wish personification would person told maine nan likelihood earlier I played - I would person had a quid connected that," he added.